• Extend economic relief to Social Security beneficiaries

    For the first time since 1975, Social Security beneficiaries will not receive a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) this year. For over three decades, millions of Americans have counted on these annual increases to help make ends meet. Particularly in this economic climate, having this extra protection is even more critical for the financial security…

  • N.J. must preserve fair and just housing policy

    Supreme Court decisions over the past 35 years have affirmed and reaffirmed the legal requirement of every community in New Jersey to provide housing that is affordable. As a matter of law, lowwage workers and people of limited means must be given an opportunity to live in any town. The court has been clear in…

  • Resident pleased with Obama’s job performance

    President Barack Obama has been and is continuing to do a great job. Let us not forget his halting and reversing of the economic plunge of the [President George W.] Bush years. Nearly all economists agree, we are moving in the right direction toward growth. Unemployment has hit bottom and has started to rebound. Our…

  • National standardized tests are lacking in Middletown district

    Iam writing because of my concern for the parents of schoolchildren in Middletown and in other towns so affected. I am a retired employee of the district, and both of my children graduated from Middletown schools. Until a few years ago, all Middletown children in grades 3-10 were given a well-standardized, national exam annually. With…

  • Editor’s column goes after the wrong individuals

    This letter is in response to the column “School Districts Face a Moment of Truth” by Greater Media Newspapers Managing Editor Mark Rosman. I am a relatively new teacher. I changed careers in my late 40s. Prior to teaching, I worked at a large telecommunications company for many years, earning a very good salary. Now…

  • Commission continues to study wind turbine issue

    Please allow this to serve as a response to a March 4 letter in the Independent regarding the issue of a proposed wind turbine installation in Union Beach. The Hazlet Environmental Commission (HEC) has not taken a position on this project. Rather, the commission is working to educate itself and the citizens of Hazlet on…

  • Frank Nunes

    Mr. Nunes, 75, of The Villages, Howell, died March 9, 2010, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran, serving during the Korean War. Mr. Nunes retired as a warehouse manager at Roofing Sales Co., East Rutherford. He was predeceased by his four sisters, Marie, Allie, Rita and Dolores.…

  • Lula V. Davis

    Mrs. Davis, 86, of Hazlet and formerly of Monmouth Beach, died March 9, 2010, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was a homemaker and a member of St. John’s Methodist Church, Hazlet, and the Eastern Star of Long Branch, and a former member of the KeyportAmerican Legion. Her husband, Ivan F. Davis Sr., died in…

  • On Campus

    Boston University has named Danielle M. Shafer of Matawan and Jaime L. Silverstein of Lincroft to the dean’s list for the fall semester. Caldwell College, Caldwell, recently named Bryan Broderick of West Keansburg, Megan DiCanio of Holmdel and Joseph Doerrer of Middletown to its dean’s list for the fall semester. Alison McLaughlin of Middletown has…

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